It is told by Darley, the schoolroom teacher-writer, as were the first two, and concerns primarily his love affair with Clea, the bi-sexual painter, and the growth of both into mature artists. Clea moves forward in time, the events taking place during and after the war. The first three novels encompassed the same material and time, with sundry plots and counterplots of both a personal and a political nature in the period leading up to World War II. But the initiated will find themselves happily engulfed once more from the opening sentences. It is impossible to discuss this fourth volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive) apart from the others, as it would be difficult to read it without having read the others.
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